Researches

09.05.2014

NATIONALISM AND LIBERALISM: THE PARADOXES OF SELF-DETERMINATION

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Dr. Zlatko Hadžidedić, Member of International Institute IFIMES presents his article entitled "NATIONALISM AND LIBERALISM: THE PARADOXES OF SELF-DETERMINATION". It is published in its entirety.

09.05.2014

WHEN WILL THE LAST VISA WALL IN THE WEST BALKANS FALL

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Tanja Fajon (SD/S&D), Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Member of the EP Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Member of the EP Committee on Transport and Tourism and EP Rapporteur for visa liberalisation of West Balkan states, has presented her view on the fall of the last visa walls in the West Balkans. Her artic...

09.05.2014

SLOVENIAN - CROATIAN BORDER DISPUTE: A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Anže Voh Boštic, B.Sc. Political Sciences and postgraduate student at Faculty of Economy, University of Ljubljana has analyzed Slovenian - Croatian border dispute, with a special emphasis on the political perpective. His article "Slovenian - Croatian Border Dispute: A Political Perspective" is published in its entirety.

09.05.2014

Iran - Israel: peace or war?

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Marjan Hajnal, M. Sc., member of the IFIMES International Institute, presents his view of the current Iran-Israel relations. His article entitled “IRAN - ISRAEL: PEACE OR WAR?” is here published in its entirety.

09.05.2014

WHY IT REALLY MATTERS? AND FOR WHO? THE SCHENGEN VISA LIBERALIZATION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Tanja Hafner Ademi, Coordinator of the Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN) presents her view of the Schengen Visa Liberalization in the Western Balkans. Her article entitled "Why it Really Matters? And For Who? The Schengen Visa Liberalization in the Western Balkans" is here published in its entirety.

09.05.2014

POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SECURITY PERSPECTIVES OF CHINA IN NEW GLOBAL ORDER

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Saffet Akkaya, Colonel (Retd), Phd Candidate at the International Relations Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey and Member of IFIMES International Institute has presented his views of the political, economic and security perspectives of China. His article entitled "POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SECURITY PERSPECTIVES OF CHINA IN NEW GL...

09.05.2014

POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION OF BOSNIA

Polona Mal, Tine Rus and Anže Voh Boštic, students from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, have analyzed post-conflict reconstruction in Bosnia, with a special emphasis on the role of international community. They have presented this paper at the International Seminar “Security in South Eastern Europe” in Dubrovnik in summer 2007. Their article "Post-conflict Reconstruction of Bosnia" is published in its entirety.

09.05.2014

BALKAN CONFLICT AND ITS SOLUTIONS – CREATING CONDITIONS FOR PEACE, STABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Dr. Franjo Štiblar, Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, member of the Institute of Economic Research at the same Faculty and visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, has recently published the book “Balkan Conflict and Its Solutions – Creating Conditions for Peace, Stability and Development”. Herewith, a brief...

09.05.2014

»CONCLAVE« ON THE VLASIC MOUNTAIN – STRENGTHENING THE REFORMS OR GETTING READY TO BOYCOTT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN BIH?

The international institute IFIMES is on the basis of the announced events in BiH emphasizing that the previously given evaluations on the role of the High Representative in BiH Lord Paddy Ashdown were correct, especially in the part, where he self-initially and without wider European consensus promoted the national parties in BiH (SDS – The Serbian Democratic Party, SDA – The Party of Democratic Action, HDZ – The Croatian Democratic Community) and their satellites (PDP – The party of the Democr...

09.05.2014

ALBANIA BEFORE NEW CHALLENGES!

Ladies and Gentlemen, my first words in this Convention, I would like as the tradition asks for, to address to the representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Tirana, and extend to them my deepest gratitude for the help that their governments and their nations have given and continue to give to our country.

09.05.2014

MODERATE (POLITICAL) ISLAM – A NEW ALLY OF THE WEST

The political events at the beginning of the 1990's were marked by quick changes in social and political life around the world. Within these changes we can also include the quick economic growth in Asia in which industrially powerful countries were born.

09.05.2014

PEACEFUL AND STABLE BALKANS - DO WE EXPECT TOO MUCH?

The Balkans, especially the part, which has in the late past been referred to as the Western Balkans, has been for the last six centuries, after the army of the Great Sultan Murat I defeated the Serbian army on the Kosovo field, the region of upheavals, clashes and wars, some of them having global effect.